Accretion and diffusion in white dwarfs:New diffusion timescales and applications to GD362 and G29-38

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 498, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 517-525

  Koester, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Diffusion; Stars: abundances; Stars: white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION, ACCRETION DISKS; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; CIRCUMSTELLAR DUST; CIRCUMSTELLAR MATTERS; CONVECTION ZONE; COOL WHITES; DEBRIS DISK; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DIFFUSION VELOCITY; ELEMENT ABUNDANCES; LOWER BOUNDARY; METAL TRACES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL TYPES; STARS: ABUNDANCES; STARS: WHITE DWARFS; STEADY STATE; TIME-SCALES; WHITE DWARF; WHITE DWARFS;

DEBRIS; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DUST; MODELS; STARS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 66249143372     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200811468     Document Type: Article

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